In “Non-Stop,” Liam Neeson stars as an air marshal on a New York-to-London flight who starts receiving text messages from someone on the plane threatening to kill one of the passengers every 20 minutes until $150 million is wired to a bank account.

Then, as Drowning Pool sang (assuming “sang” is the right word), the bodies hit the floor.

The downside to a premise like that, though, is that the movie’s entire success or failure hinges on the reveal of the criminal mastermind.

Suffice it to say, the trio of screenwriters — a newcomer, a former WWE writer and an editor on “Big Brother” and “Wipeout” — aren’t able to stick the landing, and the motivation for the absurdly elaborate plot drifts pretty far to the dopey side.

Here, then are 11 airplane-based movies more entertaining than “Non-Stop”: